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A Restoration Project ofWaiheke Working Sail

Charitable Trust2018 Update

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ABOUT THE WAIHEKE WORKING SAIL CHARITABLE TRUST

THE KATE HISTORY & RESTORATION PROJECT

RESTORATION BEGUN

THE RELAUNCH 2015

THE PLANS

NEXT STEPS AND THE FINANCIALS

PROJECTED COSTS OF RESTORING THE KATE

HOW YOU CAN HELP

CONTACT US

For the latest updates on our events and activities, see our website: www.waihekeworkingsail.org and our Facebook page Waiheke Working Sail.

The Trust plans to operate a Youth

Development organisation on Waiheke Island, enabling young people to discover their potential through learning the traditional skills of sailing and seamanship and preserving our nautical heritage.

The idea of creating a local group to build and operate a small Sail Training Ship was first discussed in 2011, and the Waiheke Working Sail Charitable Trust became formally incorporated in May 2013.

It plans to make affordable voyages of adventure available to all youth on Waiheke Island, with a focus on ages 13 and 14.

LIFE SKILLSSail training teaches timeless, universal values: courage, teamwork, leadership, tolerance, communication, empathy, trust and innovative thinking. It offers true youth development in a safe, fun and challenging environment.

These lifetime skills and values are more relevant than ever to

young people in a fast-changing and

challenging world.

ABOUT THE WAIHEKE WORKING SAIL CHARITABLE TRUST

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ENVIRONMENTEqually important in this digital age is the opportunity to get close to nature in the environment. To witness the sun rising from the sea, bird life, fish, dolphins and whales, and to learn about their vital importance to us.

YOUTH DEVELOPMENTThose already learning to sail will round out their skills, while some who have never been in a boat before will discover a new world at sea in the supportive community of the crew.

This project is also teaching skills in all the departments needed to build and outfit a sailing ship.

SPIRIT OF ADVENTUREThe programme developed over 40 years by the Spirit of Adventure Trust has proven of lifelong benefit to young people. With their enthusiastic support, we intend to develop a similar programme.

Experience has shown that at-risk youth, powerfully motivated by peer pressure and leadership example, can turn their lives around to the great benefit of society.


THE KATE HISTORY & RESTORATION PROJECT

The Trust needed a vessel suited to local conditions, in particular with a shallow draft to allow berthing in the Causeway Inlet.

Concept drawings were prepared for a purpose-built ship. But the project was simply too ambitious, in terms of both cost and construction.

The secondhand market failed to find a suitable vessel.

The solution emerged on the Trust’s doorstep, literally: the historic former trading cutter Kate.

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Built in 1898 on the Kaipara Harbour, KATE is one of only three surviving examples of her type, the sailing cutters that played a vital part in the pioneering development of New Zealand. She embodies a unique part of our heritage.

She was a fast boat, reputedly a frequent winner of her class in the Dargaville regatta races.

In 1911 an engine was fitted, and she was employed towing kauri logs out to sailing ships for export. Later she was a fishing boat, then a yacht and for many years a houseboat on Waiheke Island.

When the Trust found her she was on the brink of ruin, teetering between life and death. But she was soundly built, planked in kauri on grown pohutukawa frames. Her fine lines shone through more than a century of hard work and mistreatment.

An initial assessment showed she could be adapted to carry six trainees, a master and a mate for coastal voyaging.

Encouraged by a world-wide movement towards restoring classic vessels and returning them to service, the Trust decided to buy her.


HISTORYDerelict Kate as purchased

Half-model in the Daragville Maritime Museum

RESTORATION BEGUN

As funds were raised in 2014 two apprentices were taken on.

The topsides were repaired with new planks, and a call put out for suitably curved branches of pohutukawa to replace several frames.

Then, in November that year, she was hauled out on the Waiheke Boating Club’s hardstand for extensive repairs below the waterline, including a new forefoot, and dealing with rot between the two layers of planking.

Some previous repairs were found to be sub-standard, and wererebuilt to full strength.

There were some challenging problems, some ‘Oh Dear’ moments as the true extent of the damage was revealed; but the apprentices learnt a great deal, tackling each job competently and gaining valuable experience.

On 28th February 2015 the KATE was re-launched, in sound condition and much stronger than before. And she didn’t leak a drop!

In terms of boatbuilding work to be done we are about two-thirds complete. And in

terms of finance we are about half way

there, with big ticket items such as

engine, propeller, sails and safety

equipment to come.

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Fitting new plank

PROGRESS SO FAR Since re-launching, substantial progress has been made as funds allowed

1 2 3 44 5 6 7 8 9The re-building of

the stern has been completed.

A large new central hatch has

been added to give plentiful light and air

below, and the potential to carry

cargo.

A seat has been fitted in the stern that incorporates

a hatch and ventilator.

The fore scuttle is finished, with the new Samson post and ‘spare man’

to hold the anchor.

The new aft cabin is in place but

unfinished, with the steering

wheel mounted.

The new rudder is made, and the rudder trunk.

The mast is almost complete,

the boom, gaff and bowsprit

partially finished.

Several island- grown Eucalyptus trees have been

felled and milled to provide hard- wood for the cap rail, taffrail, and finishing trim.

A new belting has been fitted all

round, and bulwarks.

Repairing topsides

Rebuilding the forefoot


THE RELAUNCH 2015

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On 28th February 2015 the KATE was re-launched, in

sound condition and much stronger than before. And

she didn’t leak a drop


THE PLANS

For the latest updates on our events and activities, see our website: www.waihekeworkingsail.org and our Facebook page Waiheke Working Sail. 7

The drawings are with a registered Naval Architect who has completed stability calculations for licensing under the new Maritime Operators Safety System (MOSS).

With help from our two apprentices, offset measurements were taken of the hull, a set of lines drawn and displacement calculations done. The sail plan was based on her near-sister REWA (preserved in the Maritime Museum in Auckland).

REWA - the Maritime Museum in Auckland

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8For the latest updates on our events and activities, see our website: www.waihekeworkingsail.org and our Facebook page Waiheke Working Sail.

Application has been made to the Waiheke Local Board for these items, but we also need funding for the labour costs before we can commit to this.

Then there are the fuel and water tanks (donated, need modifying), accommodation, rigging (mostly donated), sails, electrics, safety equipment, and compliance costs.

From now on it’s mostly new building, adapting the old ship to her new role as a vehicle for education and getting her sailing as a heritage vessel with her original rig.

NEXT STEPS

9For the latest updates on our events and activities, see our website: www.waihekeworkingsail.org and our Facebook page Waiheke Working Sail.

Photo Courtesy of Waiheke Gulf News

The Waiheke Working Sail Charitable Trust is an Incorporated Charity whose purpose is to encourage youth development through the learning of boatbuilding and sailing skills. The costs of restoring the vessel along with the costs of running ongoing training programmes and apprenticeship schemes with qualified staff is funded by a combination of private, corporate, central and local government grants and donations.

We would also be happy to discuss the possibility of an endowment, for the longer term.

THE FINANCIALS

We are nearing the stage where another haul-out will be necessary, to fit the lead ballast keel, rudder, new stern tube, and hopefully the engine, propeller shaft and propeller.

spent so far donated material

needed to complete

The estimated full cost of restoring KATE to full seaworthy condition,complete with new sails, engine and fittings with materials and labour at full retail prices, is $215,000.

Sixty-one thousand dollars has been raised and spent so far, mostly on apprentices’ wages, and in terms of work to be done we are about 60% complete. This represents huge savings through donated labour.

Substantial donations of materials (including two excellent dinghies) have saved an estimated $15,000, and we have managed good discounts from suppliers.

However, to step up the pace of progress and get the “Kate” sailing as soon as possible we need to employ more paid labour, both for boatbuilding and administration. With continuing support from the community we should be able to complete the project for a further cost of around $91,000.

The estimated annual cost of operating the KATE full time as a sail training vessel is around $175,000 per annum. We expect trainee fees to cover about 50% of this, and again, we will be able to manage substantial discounts and reduced labour costs with volunteer crew.

Restoring the stern of “Kate”

NB. We can provide more detailed accounts of income and expenditure, including an itemised budget of KATE restoration tasks and the provisional WWS training programme, should you be interested in learning more about the Waiheke Working Sail Trust’s projects and programmes.

These restored Essex smacks are remarkably similar to the “Kate”

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PROJECTED COSTS OF RESTORING THE KATE


We are relying on the generosity of individuals to contribute financially to the restoration of the KATE and/or to offer to share their valuable skills and experience.

To maintain a professional standard, and to eventually run an effective Sail Training Organisation, staff will need to be paid for the work they do.

We need help!If you feel you would like to contribute to the wellbeing of youth in our community through the transference of important boat-building, sailing and lifeskills we would love to talk to you.

We need support in both the short term to get her sailing, and long term for ongoing operational expenses and maintenance.

Would you consider this?A most valuable contribution is a monthly Direct Debit Authority which gives us some security of income and helps enormously with forward planning.

Several supporters are already contributing amounts between $10 - $50 per month.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

For the latest updates on our events and activities, see our website: www.waihekeworkingsail.org and our Facebook page Waiheke Working Sail. 11

For all donations we will send you a receipt with our registered number for a tax refund.

Waiheke Working Sail Charitable Trust Registration No: CC50233

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You can make a donation of any size through the ‘Give a little’ facility on our website, or by direct credit to the Waiheke Working Sail Charitable Trust,

KiwiBank account 38-9014-0889139-00.

Alternatively you can mail us acheque to: 104 Wharf Rd. Ostend, Waiheke Island 1081.

Bernard Rhodes MRINA (Member, Royal Institution of Naval Architects)Manager / Trustee

104 Wharf Rd. Ostend, Waiheke IslandPhone: 09 372 5621Email: [email protected]

Ask for a receipt, and to be included in our mailing list.

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talos marineBoat Renovation & Maintenance

Ken BranchMike DelamoreBill Kinghorn

Tom McCannBernard RhodesRobin Kenyon

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